The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by…

[As they would have no Saints days observed by the Church, so no ¹Apocryphal Chapter read in the Church, but upon such a reason, as would exclude all Sermons, as well as Apocrypha, viz. because the holy Scriptures contain in them all things necessary either in Doctrine to be believed, or in duty to be practised; if so, why so many unnecessary Sermons? why any more but reading of Scriptures? If notwithstanding their sufficiency, Sermons be necessary, there is no reason why these Apocryphal Chapters should not be as useful, most of them containing excellent discourses, and rules of mortality, it is heartily to be wished ⟨p. 77⟩that Sermons were as good; if their fear be that by this mean• those Books may come to be of equal esteem with the Canon, they may be secured against that by the Title which the Church hath put upon them, calling them Apocryphal, and it is the Church's testimony which teacheth us this difference, and to leave them out, were to cross the practice of the Church in former Ages.]

[As they would have no Saints dayes observed by the Church, so no ¹Apocriphal Chapter read in the Church, but upon such a reason, as would exclude all Sermons, as well as Apocripha, viz. because the holy Scriptures contain in them all things necessary either in Doctrine to be believed, or in duty to be practised; if so, why so many unnecessary Sermons? why any more but reading of Scriptures? If notwithstanding their sufficiency, Sermons be necessary, there is no reason why these Apocriphal Chapters should not be as useful, most of them containing excellent discourses, and rules of mortality, it is heartily to be wished ⟨p. 77⟩